Penguins Stopped Play
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Penguins Stopped Play
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Author : Harry Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-04-05
Penguins Stopped Play written by Harry Thompson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-05 with Humor categories.
'Completely brilliant' Ian Hislop It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.
Penguins Stopped Play Ss
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Author : Harry Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Penguins Stopped Play Ss written by Harry Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with categories.
Penguins Stopped Play
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Author : Aron Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Penguins Stopped Play written by Aron Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Cricket categories.
A hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe.
Penguins Stopped Play
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Author : Aron Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Penguins Stopped Play written by Aron Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Cricket categories.
A hilarious odyssey in which an amateurish bunch of English eccentrics go cricketing across the globe.
Elk Stopped Play
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Author : Charlie Connelly
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Elk Stopped Play written by Charlie Connelly and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A celebration of cricket's furthest outposts and frontiers as documented annually in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
Inside Out
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Author : Gideon Haigh
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Inside Out written by Gideon Haigh and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Cricket categories.
In Gideon Haigh's latest book, one of cricket's finest writers turns his subject Inside Out, examining those aspects of cricket that distinguish it from other games, from the centenary of Sir Donald Bradman and the cult of the baggy green cap to the threat and promise of the Twenty20 revolution. This is cricket not only as it is played, but as it is seen, run, commercialised, codified, promoted, politicised and also written about by others, with a detailed introduction to the distinguished literary traditions of which Gideon Haigh now forms part.
Cricket S Strangest Matches
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Author : Andrew Ward
language : en
Publisher: Portico
Release Date : 2016-04-04
Cricket S Strangest Matches written by Andrew Ward and has been published by Portico this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Cricket’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of cricketing weirdness – and there’s a lot of it to choose from! Within these pages you’ll find a game that was played on ice, meet a plague of flying ants who failed to dampen players’ enthusiasm, and examples of the grand old tradition of one-armed teams versus one-legged teams. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true. Fully revised, redesigned and updated with a selection of new material for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for the cricket fanatic in your life. Word count: 45,000 words
Different Class
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Author : Duncan Stone
language : en
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Different Class written by Duncan Stone and has been published by Watkins Media Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Social Science categories.
Shortlisted for the Cricket Writers Club 'Book of the Year' 2022 and the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 'Cricket Book of the Year' 2023 In telling the story of cricket from the bottom up, Different Class demonstrates how the "quintessentially English" game has done more to divide, rather than unite, the English. In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: "What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?" A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning by placing the game in its true social, political and economic context, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the game’s orthodox history that, he argued, had played a key role in the formation of national culture. As a consequence, he failed, and the history of cricket in England has retained the same stresses and lineaments as it did a century ago — until now. In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not simply challenge the widely accepted orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were, under the guise of amateurism, intentionally developed in order to divide the English along class lines at every level of the game. If the creation of opposing class-based cricket cultures in the North and South of England grew out of this process, the institutional structures developed by those in charge of English cricket continue to discriminate. But, as much as the exclusion of Black and South Asian cricketers from the recreational mainstream is the most obvious example, it is social class that remains the greatest barrier to participation in what used to be the national game.
The Wit Of Cricket
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Author : Barry Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-06-02
The Wit Of Cricket written by Barry Johnston and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THIS BUMPER COLLECTION OF THE FUNNIEST, ANECDOTES, JOKES AND STORIES FROM CRICKET'S BEST-LOVED PERSONALITIES PROVES THAT CRICKET IS STILL A FUNNY GAME - EVEN WHEN RAIN STOPS PLAY! With a new introduction by Jonathan Agnew. In this updated and expanded edition of the popular THE WIT OF CRICKET you can read many more hilarious anecdotes about legendary cricketers such as Richie Benaud, Ian Botham, Donald Bradman, Geoff Boycott, Andrew Flintoff, Joe Root and Ben Stokes. There also dozens of humorous gaffes and giggles from the commentary box by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Dan Norcross and others - not to mention sledging, short-sighted umpires, streakers, and the phantom sock snipper in the England dressing-room!
Field Of Shadows
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Author : Dan Waddell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-05-08
Field Of Shadows written by Dan Waddell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer’s wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix Menzel, somehow persuaded his Nazi leaders to invite an English team to play his motley band of part-timers. That team was the Gentlemen of Worcestershire, an ill-matched group of mavericks, minor nobility, ex-county cricketers, rich businessmen and callow schoolboys – led by former Worcestershire CC skipper Major Maurice Jewell. Ordered ‘not to lose’ by the MCC, Jewell and his men entered the 'Garden of Beasts' to play two unofficial Test matches against Germany. Against a backdrop of repression, brutality and sporadic gunfire, the Gents battled searing August heat, matting pitches, the skill and cunning of Menzel, and opponents who didn't always adhere to the laws and spirit of the game. The tour culminated in a match at the very stadium which a year before had witnessed one of sport's greatest spectacles and a sinister public display of Nazi might. Despite the shadow cast by the cataclysmic conflict that was shortly to engulf them, Dan Waddell's vivid and detailed account of the Gentlemen of Worcestershire's 1937 Berlin tour is a story of triumph: of civility over barbarity, of passion over indifference and hope over despair.